Q24N (EFE) Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino reiterated that he would be willing to grant political asylum to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to resolve the crisis in Venezuela following the questioned presidential elections on July 28.
“If that is the contribution Panama has to make to get out of this, putting our land so that this man (Maduro) and his family can leave Venezuela, Panama would do it, without a doubt,” Mulino said in an interview with CNN, in which he maintained his position of offering that asylum in order to be a facilitator of the crisis.
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Nor did the Panamanian president rule out the option of offering political asylum to other members of Chavismo, if necessary.
The international community has also tried by various means to negotiate a way out for Maduro. In addition to the talks held with Venezuela by Colombia, Mexico and Brazil, and the guarantees offered by the United States.
“In any way Panama can cooperate (it will). And if that is the quota of cooperation (extending asylum) that we have to do, I would do it,” added the Panamanian president, who has been a strong critic of the Venezuelan elections.
Mulino “transmitted” to the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, through the Foreign Ministry, Panama’s willingness “to be the bridge” to a third country, because, he added, he does not believe “that (Maduro) can stay in Panama,” since that “would be hard to sell to the population”.
Mulino pointed out several times during the interview that “this is not the first time that Panama has faced this type of problem with politicians on the run and that there have been other leaders who have landed here, with the idea of Panama contributing to a solution to internal political problems.”
Mulino recalled the cases of former Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón in 1956, Guatemalan Jorge Serrano Elías (1990-1993) and former Haitian coup general Raoul Cedrás (1991-1994), to whom Panama granted asylum.
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Panama was one of the countries that recognized Edmundo González as the president-elect of Venezuela, after considering the fraudulent elections.
Panama and Venezuela have suspended diplomatic relations and closed their airspace.
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